These days, according to this article in the New York Times, more and more retirees are less and less retiring. The story reports that aging baby boomers are abandoning the surf-and-turf enclaves of Florida or Arizona, in favor of fitness-minded enclaves where they can raft, rock climb and hike well […]

Love, serenity, optimism, or anxiety and alienation influence our health as profoundly as obesity or fitness. This comprehensive special section in Newsweek takes us from Buddha to biofeedback, and tells us why life begins to get better when we begin talk about it. We can start by reading about it.

Sure New Zealand has good wine, but not enough to keep Kiwis sedated. As reported in this piece from Outside Magazine, Kiwis are among the worlds most irrepressible adventurers. Perhaps it’s because the two islands have 125 prime whitewater rivers, ocean within three hours of anywhere, 27 peaks that soar […]

So far, 92 climbers have died trying to make it up Denali, whose 13,120 feet from base camp to summit add up to a greater vertical gain than Mount Everest. So why would anyone want to try it? Midlife angst is one reason offered by the author of this report […]

Each of the six weekends after Labor Day, the Army Corps opens the sluices on the Summersville Dam, in Summersville, West Virginia, and the usually quiet Gauley River explodes into more than 100 rapids, ranked from Class III to V-plus. According to this story in the New York Times, it […]

South of Australia, north of nowhere, the wild island of Tasmania offers the world’s tallest hardwood trees and most foul winters. It was civilized, if it has been, by convicts from Great Britain. Yet this beautifully written piece in the New York Times paints it all but irresistible.

People, people who need people, are the healthiest people in the world. At least, that seems to be the case, according to a recent study by the University of Florida. The survey of more than 800 students found that extroverts may have more success exercising in a gym than in […]

Looking for a way to pump up those synapses in your hippocampus? Try exercising any other part of your body. A new study by an Oregon Health & Science University researcher suggests that exercise increases the chemical BDNF – brain-derived neurotrophic factor. As this story in Science Daily reports, BDNF […]

A study at the University of Georgia has found that, for relief of muscle pain during and after exercise, caffeine does much more than aspirin. That’s the good news. The bad news, according to this report, is that the more coffee a person drinks each day, the less powerful is […]

For more than 20 years, federal dietary guidelines have warned of health risks associated with too much sugar. No more. Next year’s guidelines, cooked up by a panel of doctors and professors, doesn’t even mention sugar. This revealing editorial in the New York Times wonders if the omission was influenced […]